More sensible by the day.

Looks like Game are finally on the verge of folding.

You can see how its dividing up in the forums.

Those that just consume and are of the skinny jean and white plimsoles persuasion love it and feel that desktops should be banned.

Then the rest that are just too tired/jaded to go through this crap and just want to get on with our tedious dreary jobs creating stuff and trying to make money with the minimum of hassle.

I've been using this system for nearly 20 years I really really don't care about Metro, sorry kids, Dad's not interested.

Take it out of 8 for Desktop/Laptop and leave all the nice improvements like the Task Manager etc. and let us get on with trying to keep our jobs.

One of those features......

hardly anyone uses.

I used to use it about 7 years ago to hook up a GPS unit to a smartphone but it was a PITA.

Abut as useful as those PCI-e slots on laptops. At least they dont bother with those anymore.

Feedback from folks I've shown it to so far....

These are normal XP/Windows 7 users -

"Thats stupid!"

"How do I..?"

"Where is..?

"Oh Christ!"

"Why is that....?"

"I give up!"

"Okay okay I'll buy that Windows 7 PC!"

"I'm buying a Mac next time if this is what it's like!"

Glowing I'm sure you'll agree.

Missing some points here.

When I go into Game and look at the second hand games 95% of them are trash titles that should never have been launched in the first place. For every AAA title you may find there will be 50 Z list titles around it.

So in the long run it may mean the second hand game market dries up a little but it could also mean that if folks are more choosy about what they buy (as it seems by the second hand racks a lot of people buy crappy games a lot) then the games developers are going to have to make sure their titles are the ones people are going to really want to buy.

So it may mean less games released a year but the quality could improve a lot more. I'm all for that.

As for doing away with optical media I'm 50/50 on this. I knew there was a good chance that MS would rather die than out a BD drive in a Xbox but they could have used a modified HD-DVD drive as the tech was theirs and I bet there is still a warehouse in eastern Europe somewhere full of old HD-DVD drives that are bought and paid for.

I still use my 360 as my main DVD drive but I have never played an audio CD in it. Not really suitable. I've always fancied going back to cartridges since the days of my Morrowind DVD constantly playing up on my original Xbox.

Amazing bonus of Windows 8. Thanks Microsoft.

Since I have installed Windows 8 on a tablet laptop, I've been hawking around some of my customers that have been dawdling over upgrading from XP to 7.

I've sat them down with the Windows 8 laptop and asked them to play around with "the very near future".

All of them have now given me hurried orders for WIndows 7 machines.

Fantastic! Kerchinnnng!

Windows 8 - The best selling point for Windows 7!

I sat and watched every disgusting frame of that film.......

.....twice!

Please.....

..I just wish our country would stop dicking around and pandering to focus groups and just build the 5 or so nuclear reactors we needed to have built at least 5 years ago.

Get on with it.

How else will all the self-styled eco-warriors charge up their iPads and warm their Starbucks lattes?

It's about the money not saving the planet.

If we withdrew the hefty tax subsidies/payments from the wind farms then 95% of them would be shut down and sold for scrap within a week.

Just installed it.

I sat down to try it cold as a normal user for the first time.

So ...errrr.....where are all the applications like Notepad,etc.?

Where do I find them?

I don't need 95% of the stuff on the Metro page but the stuff I do need I cant find anywhere.

I'm trying to be clever and clicking on blank parts of the screen (there are lots of those) and that doesn't do anything' but make the desktop go small (why do I need it to do that?).

I did click somewhere and got a bit up the right hand side that gave me some options but I lost it and cant get it back.

I feel like one of my ordinary customers that hasn't had the benefit of 20+ years PC experience like I have. It's really humbling and to be honest a OS shouldn't do that.

I am not looking forward to rolling this out to my long term XP/Vista customers. It will be carnage.

Simple Solition - Ban Powerpoint

You can then get rid of 25% of your workforce with no reduction in performance.

If fact it should improve as people can do real work.

Spotify is good.

We have the 4.99 option and its been 18 months since we last bought a CD.

However, it needs more Budgie. Only got the superb Breadfan at the mo.

Havent bought from them in a while.

Used to use them all the while but just not the cheapest anymore.

I still use their site to spec up builds for a rough price as its the fastest for that.

Then I go to Ebuyer who usually end up £5 cheaper and also give you free delivery, to purchase.

Dragons Domian......

....terrified me as a kid back in 1975. I was only 4 but remembered those skeletons being spat out vividly. Stuff of nightmares. Slept under the covers for years after that.

Was intrigued to watch that episode again in 2009 when they were all repeated for the first time since I was 4. A cathartic experience. Most odd.

Season 1 holds up the best though Season 2 mission jackets were cool.

Dunno about a reboot as the original premise is pretty ropey really.

Unless it has a......

....massive battery in there why does it have to be so large?

Looks to me like it was initially designed to take a HDD of some sort.

Open it up and chances are a lot of it may be fresh air.

Evolution rather than revolution

I don't think the next gen from MS and Sony will be as big a leap as the current gen were.

The bar is now set at 1080p and both companies will have done their market research and probably found that folks dont want to pay that much this time round and also they will not want to make such a large loss per box as they did back in 2005/6+.

Anyone expecting 6970 GPUs and 12 core CPUs with 16GB of ram are going to be disappointed not to mention a little delusional.

Blimey.....

.....reading through some of these posts either some folks are trying too hard or living with Blu-Ray is a real struggle.

What happened to the simple 'open close play' of DVD?

Step backwards me thinks.

Started using Love Film online a few weeks ago.

I have a 16Mbps ADSL link and picture quality is pretty good. Only get a bit of pixelation when something goes really crazy on screen.

Not that much different to Freeeview. The only criticism is as mentioned previously navigating the collection is really horrendous and time consuming. A lot of gems are really hidden away if you are just browsing.

Using anything with the new Xbox 360 interface...

....is nigh on hopeless without a bloody Kinnect. As I'm 40 I refuse to buy such a thing.

Worst user interface the 360 has ever had. Awful.

Hitting back a couple of times then takes you to a "Go back in icon" that just takes you back to where you wanted to leave. The whole across the top and then up and down...christ.

FFS!

One word....

Awful!

Comet is a mess.

Went into my local Comet superstore a couple of weeks ago, it was awful.

No real organisation, the flat screen TVs had no sense of organisation. All the sizes randomly scattered around so you couldn't get any idea of comparison. New stock mixed in with old etc. etc.

The best bit was their clearance table. All the stuff that by the looks of it had been run over or used as a doorstop in the back of the store. All with an amazing too good to resist £1 off!

Sad.

The guy retired pretty much after 1983.

Nothing really of note since then.

He got lucky with the first Star Wars movie and had a lot of people around him keeping him under control and telling him in no uncertain terms "George, that's a load of crap!" and therefore it was a vastly better film for that. By RoTJ things are starting to go astray and mistakes of judgement are being made.

Since then no one has ever dared tell him to his face when he's going wrong. Except the 7 billion that don't work on his payroll.

If he had kept a few strong personalities around him and listened to a few folks then it may have been very different.

It's just so sad to watch those making of scenes on the prequels where you see talented actors running around empty green draped hangers for sets giving no emotion or depth to them. Whilst Lucas sits a few feet away looking at a monitor with a latte in hand. No wonder all the performances are totally flat. Must be soul destroying for an actor.

I remember Terrence Stamp summed it up nicely when he said that at first he was quite excited to appear in a Star wars movie till he realised he was just in a glorified toy catalogue.